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Major South Korean cryptocurrency exchanges have introduced restrictions for Russian users, effectively joining western sanctions over Moscow’s military invasion of Ukraine. The measures include blocking IP addresses originating from the Russian Federation. Largest Korean Exchange May Deny Withdrawals From Russia Several crypto trading platforms in South Korea, including the country’s largest, are banning access from …

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Following three consecutive sessions of declines, BTC was fast approaching its support level of $40,000 on Friday, as markets prepared for February’s nonfarm payrolls report. This came as ETH also fell lower, and is approaching its own floor of $2,500 in the process. Bitcoin BTC bulls have been few and far between over the last …

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Infura, the service provider of Metamask, one of the most used smart contracts-based wallets, blocked the access of Venezuelans to the Ethereum blockchain. Reports about this happening circulated on social media, attributing it to the existence of sanctions that the infrastructure provider might have applied to Venezuela. However, Infura later stated this was the result …

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sponsored March 6th sees GAIMIN enter its fifth and most exciting year: GAIMIN’s distributed data processing application which rewards users for participation in the network will be launched in April 2022. GAIMIN’s Minecraft plugin is delivering blockchain and NFT functionality to the Minecraft Metaverse. GAIMIN’s SDK for the Unreal/EPIC platform extends blockchain and NFTs to …

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Charles Schwab is launching a crypto economy exchange-traded fund (ETF). According to the company’s filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), “Schwab Crypto Economy ETF” will trade on the NYSE Arca. Charles Schwab Registers Crypto Economy ETF With SEC Charles Schwab, one of the largest financial institutions in the U.S., filed a registration …

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Europe is waking up to the news that there has been an attack involving nuclear materials in Ukraine. Europe’s largest nuclear power plant, Zaporizhzhia, was shelled by Russian forces, with reports surfacing around 1 am GMT. Footage of the blaze was captured via Livestream and showed fires breaking out outside of the main facility. The …

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Terra has recently made many headlines due to its meteoric gains. Unfortunately, this can occasionally lead to confirmation bias in how we view the stats behind our most beloved crypto assets. If you’ve been reading around the cryptosphere this week, you will be forgiven for believing that Terra is now the second-largest asset by staking …

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The Sandbox and World of Women teamed up to bring more women and diversity into the NFT and metaverse space and announced the launch of the WoW Foundation. The Foundation will kick off with a $25 million grant from The Sandbox–dedicated to bolstering the representation of women in decentralized web spaces. WoW Foundation The Sandbox …

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Decentralized networks such as Bitcoin’s don’t know national allegiance, they only know math. And when you’re trying to get your savings out of an ATM, or send a payment to relatives in a war-torn environment, someone else’s politics is the last thing you want standing in the way of you and your loved ones’ well-being …

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On March 2, the global music media brand Billboard announced the firm has partnered with Universal Music Group (UMG) in order to launch a non-fungible token (NFT) project called Chartstars. According to Billboard, the Chartstars project will be Billboard’s first NFT product focused on music fans, as Chartstars aims to “commemorate achievements and milestones on …

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Amid ongoing hostilities with advancing Russian forces, Ukraine has been increasingly relying on cryptocurrency donations to solve humanitarian problems and finance its defense efforts. Crypto helps the country to receive and quickly distribute money and operate internationally, a high-ranking government official has indicated. Ukraine Accepts, Spends Millions in Crypto, Deputy Minister Reveals Since the Russian …

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Design Bundle, which offers design resources and a marketplace to help designers create and sell their art, published a list of the most searched NFTs of late 2021. They ranked the NFTs based on the number of times they were searched on Google each month. The results ranked the top ten most researched coins as: …

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It has been a few rollercoaster months for the Non-fungible sector, but it appears the hype has reduced a little.  Data from CryptoSlam revealed that the number of unique NFT buyers for February was 796,009, down by 12% from its January record. This marks the first time that buyers will be below 800,000 since October …

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BitDAO has announced that it is allocated $633 million in funding from the BitDAO treasury to projects in the blockchain ecosystem, including a focus on Gaming with support for @game7_official, ETH Scaling via @zkdao_official and education with funding for @Edu_DAO Describing themselves as the builders on Twitter BitDAO are encouraging others to join them in …

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press release PRESS RELEASE. Looking for an exciting new NFT collection to be a part of? Look no further than Celestials Stellar Club. We are pleased to announce the public mint date of our first collection of 4,962 NFT exoplanets on the Ethereum blockchain will take place on March 14 2022. Celestials Stellar Club is …

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